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Ragdoll breed

There is a particularity of this breed – when you hold a ragdoll in your arms, he is entirely relaxed like a so-called "rag doll". Thanks to this fact, this exceptional race gained its special name.

Ragdoll breed characteristics

  • nestling pet as well as superior breeding cat with wonderful character,
  • ragdolls do not like loneliness,
  • they are very tolerant and sociable,
  • very playful, curious and creative,
  • they love caressing and follow their owner's every step,
  • they are fond of retrieving various things,
  • magic appearance with fantastic blue eyes,
  • they love people, particularly children,
  • very patient cats,
  • in case of danger prefer falling back to using their claws and teeth,
  • unpretentious care.

Standard

Ragdolls range in 3 types

colorpoint
Attributes: ears, mask, legs and tail should be well-coloury and go with the body colour. Chest, belly and breast front are light. Slight shading on body and belly (belly spot – admitted). Colorpoint is not allowed to have any white spot. Nose and paw pads must be dark in the colour of attributes.
mitted
The same attributes as with colorpoint. White „socks“ on paws. Front legs shorter, back legs longer – to the heel.White stripe from chin to tail radix. Paw pads – pink. Attractive white mirror on the nose. Dark spots on socks – not admitted.
bicolor
Dark colour of ears, back, tail and mask, on which a well-visible white „V“ is required. White spot on the back is admitted. Legs and belly white without dark spots. No white spots on ears or tail are accepted. Nose and paw pads must be pink.

colorpoint


seal colorpoint - GIC Valencio of Eulalie

Giargo - blue colorpoint
blue colorpoint - Nelly Royale Kiwi of Eulalie

mitted

Massimo - seal mitted
seal mitted - IC Massimo von Locksley of Eulalie

blue mitted - Trumagic Magic Prince of Eulalie

bicolor

Sebinka - seal bicolor
seal bicolor - Riterags Princess Guinevere of Eulalie


blue bicolor - Ch Kizzykat Skipper of Eulalie

Ragdolls range in 4 accepted colours

  • seal - black-brown,
  • chocolate,
  • blue,
  • lilac,
  • recently acknowledged colours (since 01/01/2005) – red, creme, lynx, tortie, torbie.

Okie - chocolate lynx colorpoint
seal lynx colorpoint - Okie Royale Kiwi of Eulalie


blue cream bicolor - Tracy Sweet Dream of Eulalie

seal tortie mitted
seal tortie colorpoint - Eulalie Annie


cream colorpoint - IC Ernie von Sachsenland of Eulalie


blue lynx bicolor - Ráchel Charming Q. of Eulalie

General standard

Ragdoll is a massive big cat with medium physique. It makes a global impression of a strong, big cat.

Head
Form – medium-sized, modified V-forming with a flat looking spot between ears.
Nose
Should have a slight bow in the upper third.
Face
Cheeks are well-formed , narrowing into aq well-developed chinand round mouth.
Ears
Medium-sized with a wide base, round tops, widely set on the head, slightly disposing forward.
Eyes
big and oval, eye tail should form a direct line with position a ears. Blue colour, the more intensive, the better, in regard to body colour.
Neck
Short and Strong.
Body
Long with medium bone composition, muscular. Wide and well-developed chest, back part is muscular and heavy.
Adult individual should be as wide in shoulders as in the back part.
Legs
Of medium length with medium bone composition. Back legs are slightly taller, owing to which the back body part stretches upward.
Tail
Long, medium thickness at radix, narrowing proportionally towards its end. Well furred, thick.
Hair
medium length, thick, soft and silky structure, stuck on body, breaqking in movement. Neck hair is the longest, lining outer face edge, making thus a "shirt-front" impression. Hair in the face is short, gradually changing into longer one at the end of head acroos the chest. On sides, belly and back part of the corpus it is of half-length to long, on front legs it is short to half-length

Notes

  • female cats are obviously smaller than male ones,
  • male expression is preffered,
  • slow development (up to 4 years).

Deficiencies

  • narrow head,
  • stop, Roman nose,
  • big or small, pointed ears,
  • almond-shaped eyes,
  • too long or too short neck,
  • stubby corpus, narrow chest,
  • short legs, distended toes, missing beards between toes,
  • short tail, butt tail end,
  • short hair (considering season).

Disqualification

  • different eye colour than blue